Bowstring Steel Girder Road Overbridge Likely to Come up at Mangalore-Mumbai Railway Line Near Udupi
Bowstring Steel Girder Road Overbridge Likely to Come up at Mangalore-Mumbai Railway Line Near Udupi
The National Highways Division of the Public Works Department (PWD) has proposed to build a 54m bowstring steel girder road overbridge on top of the Mangalore-Mumbai railway line on NH 169A at Indrali in Udupi. A proposal has been sent to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and awaiting its approval.
The bridge has been estimated at a cost of ₹9 crore. An estimated 476 tonnes of galvanised steel would be used to erect the bridge with prefabrication. The prefabrication would be done using submerged arc welding process at the workshop itself and the prefabricated material would be dragged 5 metres each day to the position every day once the approval was given.
While the four-lane work of the highway between Karavali Junction of Udupi (NH 66) and Parkala off Manipal is almost complete, the RoB at Indrali near Udupi railway station continues to remain two-lane. Road users were put to great hardship to negotiate the narrow stretch riddled with battered approach roads for long.
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